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Nico Muhly’s Two Boys on Nonesuch

In a recent article that briefly examines some of the lasting impact that Beethoven has had on weste...
Author
Justin Rito
Maya Lahyani (Palestinian Woman) and Jesse Kovarsky (Omar) in The Death of Klinghoffer. Photo credit: Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera

Met Opera premiere of John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer

Aubrey Allicock (Mamoud), Paulo Szot...
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Sam Reising
Madame X - Photo credit Radius

Madame X: A New Opera With Old Charm in London

A new production with libretto and music by Tim Benjamin, Madame X premiered in London on Tuesday, A...
Author
Angelina Panozzo
Laura J. Bowler - Photo by Claire Shovelton

No punches pulled in Size Zero Opera’s Women Box in London

Opera’s tough. You can’t just stand there and sing. The minimum requirement for an opera singer is t...
Author
Paul Kilbey
Tobias Picker - Photo by Harry Heleotis

5 Questions to Tobias Picker (Composer)

On July 20, 2014, the Glimmerglass Festival presented the premiere of a new version of composer Tobi...
Author
David Dies
Bluthaus - Photo by Ruth Walz

Emotional details in Haas’ Bluthaus at Wiener Festwochen in Vienna

In a pre-concert chat at the Theater an der Wien on Sunday, June 15, composer Georg Friedrich Haas s...
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Caitlin Smith
Tim Benjamin - Photo Drew Forsyth

5 questions to Tim Benjamin (composer) about Madame X

Following his 2013 opera Emily, composer Tim Benjamin is back this August with Madame X, an operatic...
Author
Angelina Panozzo
Ben Connor (Amazonier), Rupert Enticknap (Europäer) and members of the Wiener KammerOrchesters - Photo by Armin Bardel

Mare Nostrum is child’s play at Theater an der Wien Kammeroper

There is a quaintness to Mauricio Kagel’s Mare Nostrum (1975, rev. 1997). Its heavy-handed metaphors...
Author
Caitlin Smith
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A Rake’s Progress for the Television Age at Theater an der Wien

In his 1964 essay for the Cambridge Opera Handbooks’ Igor Stravinsky: The Rake’s Progress, the compo...
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Caitlin Smith
Sabrina Peña Young

5 questions to Sabrina Peña Young on her virtual opera “Libertaria”

In 2010, after winning the IAWM Genre Prize for her multimedia work Creation, Sabrina Peña Young imm...
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Thea Derks
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Mark Adamo’s Uncertain “Gospel of Mary Magdalene” in San Francisco

The San Francisco Opera’s world premiere production of Mark Adamo’s The Gospel Of Mary Magdalene, wh...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
Happiness is the problem

Colloquial Opera: Jason Cady’s Happiness is the Problem

If  television’s IFC produced operas in addition to off-kilter films and quirky sitcoms, composer Ja...
Author
Daniel Kushner
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Missy Mazzoli’s Song from the Uproar on New Amsterdam Records

In 1904 the Swiss adventurer Isabelle Eberhardt (born 1877) drowned in a flash flood in the Sahara,...
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Thea Derks
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Jonathan Berger’s Visitations Paints Operatic Portraits of Hallucination

This is the first post of Technology Editor Dana Wen's two-part coverage of the seventh annual Music...
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Dana Wen
Jonathan Berger

5 questions to Jonathan Berger (composer, founder of the Music & Brain Symposium)

Now in its seventh year, the 2013 Music & Brain Symposium begins on April 12 at Stanford Univers...
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Dana Wen
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5 videos of goats screaming classical music (it’s Friday)

Few would deny that the latest internet sensation is goats—screaming goats—and it didn’t take...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Benjamin P. Wenzelberg, Sara Jakubiak, Lauren Worsham, Sharmay Musacchio - Photo by Richard Termine

Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw, NYCO at BAM

This season the New York City Opera presents 4 new productions: two at BAM, and two at New York City...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Keeril Makan - Photo by Scott Irvine

5 Questions to Keeril Makan (composer)

Described by The New Yorker as “an arrestingly gifted young American composer,” and by the New York...
Author
Christian Gentry
Leaha Maria Villarreal and Mary Kouyoumdjian

5 questions to Leaha Maria Villarreal and Mary Kouyoumdjian (composers, artistic/executive directors of Hotel Elefant)

Experiments in Opera has commissioned 10 composers to present new operas that last no more than 10 m...
Author
Daniel Kushner
Cathy Berberian

Waiting for the Berberians

Here's a story I hope is true. Years ago, Laurie Anderson contacted Thomas Pynchon via snail mail to...
Author
Sam Zelitch
Monica Harte

5 questions to Monica Harte (soprano, co-founder and general director of Remarkable Theater Brigade)

On Friday, October 19, the Remarkable Theater Brigade is back at Carnegie Hall (Zankel) for another...
Author
Thomas Deneuville

This week: concerts in New York (July 23, 2012 – July 29, 2012)

The Knights The Knights is an orchestra of friends from a broad spectrum of the New York music worl...
Author
Sam Reising
Chen Ye Yuan-(Chou-En-lai), Maria Kanyova (Pat-Nixon) and Brian Mulligan (Richard Nixon) - Photo by Cory Weaver

John Adams’ Nixon in China: full production at the San Francisco Opera

Nixon in China. John Adams' first opera. San Francisco Opera’s series of performances (which began J...
Author
Kelsey Walsh
Say it ain't so, Joe

5 questions to Curtis K. Hughes (composer)

Say It Ain’t So, Joe is a chamber opera composed by Curtis K. Hughes in 2009 with a subsequent premi...
Author
Christian Gentry
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